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ClassicAlive presents Gabriel Cabezas and Chloe Felesina
Ballet over easy with a cello on the side
How do you bring ballet out from behind the curtain of elitism and high ticket prices? Serve it for Sunday brunch (with mimosas) to families. That’s what LiveConnections at World Café Live does.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's 'Serenade'
A celebration of two dance anniversaries
George Balanchine's Serenade, first performed 80 years ago, has changed over the years, but the Pennsylvania Ballet's production preserves its loveliness and soul.
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“Ballroom with a Twist 2” in Wilmington
When reality competitions collide
If you enjoy the TV series Dancing with the Stars, you’d be more than pleased with its transmutation to the live stage.
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Starting a career in dance
What college programs can and cannot do for graduates
College dance majors graduate with a lot of valuable tools, but they have plenty of work to do to create their careers.
How kids see ‘The Nutcracker’ (4th helping)
‘This is sort of a dream, right?’
On our fourth annual visit to The Nutcracker with our grandchildren, we find them less reactive and more analytical. And they’re not even six and four!
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BodyVox’s ‘The Cutting Room’ at Annenberg
They lost it at the movies
BodyVox’s The Cutting Room is part ballet, part modern dance, part multi-media performance, but mostly hodgepodge.
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Philadanco salutes Huggins at the Perelman
They can act, too
I just saw the most spectacular Philadanco concert I’ve ever seen— an all-Christopher L. Huggins celebration, with six of this young choreographer’s works. Each one gave me such goose bumps that I worried people could see them through my sweater.
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Keigwin + Company at Annenberg
Straightforward and unpretentious, but is it art?
The Annenberg audience loved Larry Keigwin’s pop-oriented dance troupe. I, on the other hand, found the presentation deeply flawed. Atrocious lighting didn’t help.
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'Flashdance The Musical' and Ballet X
Can you tell the dirty dancers from the ballerinas?
Street dancing once had the power to shock. Now there’s not much difference between the flashdancers of Flashdance The Musical and the classically trained dancers of BalletX. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
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Where have all the dance students gone?
Why study dance when you can party?
After teaching dance in Philadelphia for ten years, I can’t help wondering where all the dance students have gone. What competing attractions are grabbing their attention and money?